{"id":601,"date":"2025-10-19T07:12:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T02:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/?p=601"},"modified":"2025-10-19T07:12:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T02:12:28","slug":"2-ways-to-set-password-hint-for-windows-user-account-password-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/19\/2-ways-to-set-password-hint-for-windows-user-account-password-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Ways to Set Password Hint for Windows User Account | Password Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like the hint option&#8230; way better than questions, IMO.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s super easy to set up a password hint when you change or reset your Windows user password. Follow these steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open the Control Panel. Set the\u00a0<strong>View by<\/strong>\u00a0option to\u00a0<strong>Large icons<\/strong>. Click on\u00a0<strong>User Accounts<\/strong>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5485\" src=\"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/control-panel.png\" alt=\"control-panel\" width=\"574\" height=\"387\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Once on your user account page, click on the\u00a0<strong>Manage another account<\/strong>\u00a0link at the bottom.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5486\" src=\"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/user-accounts.png\" alt=\"user-accounts\" width=\"600\" height=\"260\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Click on the user account whose password hint you want to create or change.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5487\" src=\"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/manage-accounts.png\" alt=\"manage-accounts\" width=\"600\" height=\"381\" \/><\/li>\n<li>In the next window, click on\u00a0<strong>Change the password<\/strong>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5488\" src=\"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/change-windows-password.png\" alt=\"change-windows-password\" width=\"600\" height=\"253\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Type your current password and set a new password. Next enter a word or sentence for your password hint that will help you (and you only!) remember your password. Click\u00a0<strong>Change password<\/strong>\u00a0when you are done.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/set-password-hint-for-windows-user-account\/\">2 Ways to Set Password Hint for Windows User Account | Password Recovery<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like the hint option&#8230; way better than questions, IMO.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s super easy to set up a password hint when you change or reset your Windows user password. Follow these steps:<\/p>\n<p> Open the Control Panel. Set the View by option to Large icons. Click on User Accounts. Once on your user account page, click on [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}